seems that some notebooks the bios loads part of the boot from the HD first before trying to boot from the CD, so when the CD boots, the system expects some windows stuff, when it "sees" FreeBSD, it reboots...
Solution I found: 1) get/buy another HD for notebook (here a 320GB costs U$100) 2) make sure the HD is NOT INITIALIZED (blank) 3) install the FreeBSD in the HD in a desktop machine that for sure boots FreeBSD 4) open the notebook, install the FreeBSD HD in the notebook, usually a door under the notebook 5) boot from the HD Here for me it worked.. Beware that some notebooks you may void warranty if you install another OS than windows... that is why I still have the original HD with windows8 inside.. If there is a problem with the notebook, I can always replace the original HD and return it to factory.. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
